{"product_id":"the-importance-of-nietzsche-sinoamericangerman-documentary","title":"The Importance of Nietzsche (Sino-American-German Documentary)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book  one of the most distinguished scholars of German culture collects his essays on a figure who has long been one of his chief preoccupations. Erich Hellers lifelong study of modern European literature necessarily returns again and again to Friedrich Nietzsche.  Nietzsche prided himself on having broken with all traditional ways of thinking and feeling  and once even claimed that he would someday be recognized for having ushered in a new millennium. While acknowledging Nietzsches radicalism  Heller also insists on the continuity of the story in which he does indeed occupy a central place. By considering Nietzsche in relation to Goethe  Rilke  Wittgenstein  Yeats  and others  Heller shows the philosophers ambivalence toward the tradition he inherited as well as his profound effect on the thought and sensibility of those who followed him. It is hardly an exaggeration to say  as Heller does in his first essay  that Nietzsche is to many modern writers and thinkersincluding Mann  Musil  Kafka  Freud  Heidegger  Jaspers  Gide  and Sartrewhat St. Thomas Aquinas was to Dante: the categorical interpreter of a world  which they contemplate imaginatively and theoretically without ever much upsetting its Nietzschean structure.  Thus it is Nietzsches thought  so pervasively present in the themes of modernity  that gives coherence and unity to Hellers essays. What emerges from them is that  despite his iconoclastic declarations and unorthodox philosophical practices  Nietzsche deals with the human spirits persistent concerns. His questions remain urgent  and even the answers  in all their contradictoriness  possess the commanding force of his inquiry. An example is the incompatibility of the famous extremes  the teaching of the bermensch and the Eternal Recurrence of All Things. These cancel each other out and yet grow from the same intellectual and spiritual roots  as is shown lucidly and cogently by one of Hellers most forceful essays  \"Nietzsches Terrors: Time and the Inarticulate.\" In fathoming the depth of this contradiction  Heller at the same time reveals the importance of Nietzsche for those who seek to understand the wellsprings of the epochs disquiet  turmoil  and creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984042782773,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226326381","price":27.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226326382.jpg?v=1770819670","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-importance-of-nietzsche-sinoamericangerman-documentary","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}